Open Doors' work in China

Open Doors' work inside the world’s most populated country includes distributing Bibles and Christian literature, training church leaders and pastors, and giving practical support to numerous projects.

Open Doors has been working in China since she began to open her borders after the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s. At that time, Open Doors began to work with the Church in China supplying much-needed Bibles. Although tens of thousands of Bibles were being delivered, it quickly became clear that the scale of the country was so great that it required a courier operation on an equally vast scale.

In 1981 Open Doors carried out its most audacious delivery of Bibles to date, Project Pearl. One million Bibles arrived in China in one night, delivered by boat to thousands of Chinese Christians, waiting on the beach to distribute the Bibles across China by trucks, cars, donkey carts and bicycles.

During the 1990s a study Bible was printed and distributed by Open Doors to enable church leaders to grow and deepen in their discipleship as they cared for their congregations. As China began to experience a massive revival, demand for training materials and children's Bibles grew steadily. So Open Doors published a children's Bible and began providing training for church leaders.

Today Open Doors works in China to strengthen the Church by providing Bibles and training for ministers, children's Bibles and Sunday School material, hymn books and audio-visual equipment, marriage-enrichment courses, support for the families of imprisoned believers, and giving practical support to numerous livelihood projects for poverty-stricken Christians.